RH9: CUPS: bad download to PS printer.

[clemens dwf com]

I have just about worked out all of my (obvious) problems
with RH9,- up to the point where I would actually be willing
to run it in preference to RH8, if it were not for one nasty
printing problem.

I have a HPLJ4M+ (network) printer.
With CUPS I installed it as a default PostScript printer.
the test page prints fine, and recognizes it as a PS v2 interpreter.

OK.

The problem is that the printer can not print more than one page
of output from ANY source.  It appears that something nasty is being
downloaded into the printer's memory, and when I go back to RH8, I
have to powercycle the printer to get rid of it.

The symptoms are that the first page prints fine, the second page 
starts with the error message:

    ERROR: invalidaccess
    OFFENDING COMMAND: writestring
    
    STACK:

    (PAGE:)
    -filestream-
    0
and that is the end of the print job.

I see this same error on all output more than one page long, be it 
a long PS print or an ascii output (being converted to PS).

If one looks at the original PS of a PS file that fails, the 'writestring'
command is NOT there, so this has to be something that the CUPS driver is
either inserting, or more likely, a macro (including writestring) that 
CUPS is downloading in to the printer's memory.

Anyone else see this?  (you must if you have a PS printer).
Is this a KNOWN problem, and is there a solution?

OH, this printer does print duplex, but I dont see how that is relevant
to the problem.
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